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We Were Eight Years in Power : An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates; OverDrive, Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is We Were Eight Years in Power : An American Tragedy about?
""We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America's "first white president."
Who reads We Were Eight Years in Power : An American Tragedy?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ta-Nehisi Coates; OverDrive, Inc
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;One World
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780399590566
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.51 / 5 (1,534 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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